UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & ENERGY STUDIES

COLLEGE OF LEGAL STUDIES

BA.LLB(HONS.)
ACADEMIC YEAR: 2015-2016

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Under the Supervision of: ( Dr. Azim Phathan )

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Corruption in India and its impact on human rights: a constitutional

perspective
Corruption in India affects all levels of the society but its in the administrative
one that the biggest damage is done to the people and comes to exacerbate
poverty .In his book Taking Rights Ronald Dworkin argued: "The institution of
rights against the government is not a gift of God, or an ancient ritual, or a
national sport. It is a complex and troublesome practice that makes the
government's job of securing the general benefit more difficult and more
expensive, and it would be a frivolous and wrongful practice unless it served
some point. Anyone who professes to take rights seriously, and who praises
our government for respecting them, must have some sense of what that point
is. He must accept, at the minimum, one or both of two important ideas. The
first is the vague but powerful idea of human dignity. The second is the more
familiar idea of political equality.1 " Thus, his argument is that a person has a
fundamental right against the government only if that right is necessary to
protect his or her dignity or standing as one who is equally entitled to concern
and respect.
Inside a government office. Corruption in India not only poses a significant
danger to the quality of governance but also threatens in an accelerated
manner the very foundations of its democracy and statehood
In India, corruption attacks the fundamental values of human dignity and
political equality of the people and hence there is a pressing need to formulate a
fundamental human right to corruption-free service. The development of a
fundamental human right to a corruption-free society will be observed initially
from an international perspective so as to elevate the violation of this right to
the status of an international crime. This would provide the comparative basis to
elevate the right to corruption-free service to the status of a fundamental right
within the framework of the Indian Constitution. The right to a society free of
corruption is inherently a basic human right because the right to life, dignity,
and equality and other important human rights and values depend significantly
upon this right. That is, it is a right without which these essential rights lose
their meaning, let alone be realised. As a fundamental right, the right to a
corruption-free society cannot be discarded easily. The research paper will cover
all the aspects of the corruption and measurable solution to the problem.

1 (dowrkin, 2007, pp. 5-6)